Here is the short version. AMD partner Asus disclosed a microcode bug before AMD has a patch developed. They posted a beta BIOS update that has since been removed. Remember that the BIOS gets loaded before the operating system, so any OS security tools are likely useless in blocking this. The good news is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A week after Fortinet announced a patch for a zero-day, there are still thousands of systems worldwide vulnerable. A week ago Shadowserver identified 52,000 networks at risk. Now that is down to 48,000 and change. In other words, not much patching is going on even though the media has been sounding the alarm all week. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Soon you will start seeing this VOLUNTARY cyber trust on connected IoT devices from baby monitors, smart appliances to cameras to all sorts of things. The FCC created this program and it is likely that responsible manufacturers will sign up for it. The FCC is outsourcing the administration of this program to Underwriters Laboratory (UL), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ignoring posturing from the incoming President about the current President making life hard for him (countermanded by his chief of staff to be), the administration has revealed a lot about Chinese hacking over the last decade. #1 – China has hacked the US GOVERNMENT at least a dozen times since 2014. According to Metacurity’s research, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The House created a task force on Artificial Intelligence last year which was tasked with developing a US vision for AI adoption, innovation and governance. They provided 66 key findings and 85 recommendations over 15 different issue areas. The Steptoe law firm summarized the key aspects of this report (link below). Congress has some interesting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more code is being written by AI such as Microsoft’s Github Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the questions are started to be asked: Those are only some of the questions that the courts and Congress will need to sort out. Do we have any answers yet? Not really, but here are some possibilities from knowledgeable […]
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